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Piracy still exists because people want things for free and copying digital content is a lot easier than stealing a physical product.
Both of these things share two key aspects:
1) The technology in charge of suppressing them cannot suppress them 100% (yet).
2) They appeal to basic nature in a large pool of humans.
Yet everyone seems to focus so much on the first aspect...
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Piracy still exists because people want things for free and copying digital content is a lot easier than stealing a physical product.
Both of these things share two key aspects:
1) The technology in charge of suppressing them cannot suppress them 100% (yet).
2) They appeal to basic nature in a large pool of humans.
Yet everyone seems to focus so much on the first aspect...